Deadline Day: Steven Fletcher To Marseille Might Be A Weird Thing That’s Happening…

Chris Wright

1st, February 2016

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Transfer deadline day has thrown up a weird one. In fact, there’s almost zero chance you could’ve predicted this one cropping up today.

With a 32-point deficit to make up on league leaders PSG, Marseille are turning to almost entirely barren Sunderland striker Steven Fletcher as the man they expect to fire them back up to the upper echelons of Ligue 1.

That’s right. Following in the footsteps of Chris Waddle, Laurie Cunningham, Trevor Steven and…. err… Joey Barton before him, Fletcher has flown out to Marseille in order to hold talks with L’OM over a prospective move.

The Scotland international is out of contract in the summer and Sunderland are apparently desperate to recoup at least a sliver of a fee.

Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction.